{"id":424012,"date":"2021-07-03T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T04:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=424012"},"modified":"2021-07-03T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T05:31:21","slug":"sidhu-takes-dig-at-punjab-cm-over-power-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/sidhu-takes-dig-at-punjab-cm-over-power-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidhu takes dig at Punjab CM over power cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu attacked his rival, chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Friday over widespread power shortages in the state, indicating that infighting was rife in the Congress state unit despite two months of troubleshooting by the party leadership. <\/p>\n<p>Sidhu said Punjab was buying electricity at higher than national average prices, alleged mismanagement by state authorities, and called for contracts signed by the previous Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>His criticism of Singh and his own party\u2019s government came amid protests by Opposition parties, farmers and consumer groups over hours-long power cuts and high tariffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu attacked his rival, chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh, on Friday over widespread power shortages in the state, indicating that infighting was rife in the Congress state unit despite two months of troubleshooting by the party leadership. Sidhu said Punjab was buying electricity at higher than national average prices, alleged mismanagement by state authorities, and called for contracts signed by the previous Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) government to be cancelled. His criticism of Singh and his own party\u2019s government came amid protests by Opposition parties, farmers and consumer groups over hours-long power cuts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}